Category: Awards
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Little Punkin wins a third place ribbon!
I checked out the International Quilt Association’s website this morning and found out that my quilt, Little Punkin, won a third place ribbon at the Houston quilt festival! “Bap” would have loved that! He was (as he was quick to tell everyone) Hazel’s favorite grandparent π You can see all the winners here.
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Windblown is a Zoom Quilt
Cathy Geier of Patchworks that Praise tipped me off. Apparently Windblown is a Zoom Quilt on The Quilt Show. While I had never even heard of Zoom Quilts, it is pretty cool. When you got to their website (http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/zoom.php), you can move your cursor over the image and see a detailed close-up of the stitching.…
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2013 Quilt Odyssey
Windblown has been traveling a bit this summer. This past weekend it was at Quilt Odyssey in Hershey, Pennsylvania. It came home on Wednesday with a little something extra tucked into its box. Inside was an honorable mention ribbon and some very nice comments from the judges.
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2013 National Quilting Association Show
I got the exciting news today that Windblown won a ribbon at the 2013 National Quilting Association Show. She won a second place in the pictorial category! The show runs from June 27 through 29.
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Quilt Fest of New Jersey IX
If you’re close to New Jersey, the Quilt Fest of New Jersey runs from February 28 through March 3. I heard that the ribbon winners from the 2013 Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival are supposed to be on display. So, that means “Windblown” should be there. Boy, my quilts definitely travel more than I do! If you’re…
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2013 Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival
I heard through the APQS Facebook page that “Windblown” won a ribbon at the 2013 Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival in Hampton, Virginia this weekend. Woohoo!!! It won Best Wall Quilt! I’m so excited. I had not heard the news. Thanks, APQS.
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Road to California 2013
Good news! Good news! I got good news! As you may know, the Road to California Quilterβs Conference and Showcase (road2ca.com) opens today. Sadly, after our fabulous time in the Bay Area last week, we had to go home so we are no longer in California, and I won’t get to go to the show,…
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Review of 2012
Here’s my review of 2012 (DD#2’s idea), but I’m going to start a few months earlier because I especially like those events. π So, in addition to speaking and teaching at fifteen quilt guilds in less than two years, writing twelve articles for Quilting Arts during that same time, and making three trips to California…
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Quilting Quarterly
I got my Quilting Quarterly (Volume 41 Number 4) in the mail this week. It is the 2012 Show Special Edition which shows all the winning quilts from the 2012 NQA show. Wow! What beautiful quilts! If you weren’t able to attend the show and see them in person, this is the next best thing.…
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2012 NQA Show
Sweet hubby and I just returned from the 43rd Annual NQA Quilt Show. (NQA stands for National Quilting Association.) I was scheduled to teach six workshops over a three day period! I was pretty nervous about that, and it took quite a bit of time to get everything prepared and ready to go. I’ve actually…